Incredible story of homeless player who lied his way onto the Browns
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by football YouTuber Flemlo Raps. who recounts the story of Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi, a homeless man who lied about knowing a Cleveland Browns executive to get a tryout with the team and scored a touchdown in Odell Beckham Jr.'s borrowed cleats. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
Video Transcript
It's a guy named Damon Sheehy-Giuseppi, right?
Interesting name.
He was a, like a pre-season player for the Browns a few years ago.
He actually scored a touchdown wearing OBJ's cleats.
That's when Odell was over there.
He let him borrow his cleats, and he took a touchdown, a punt return for a touchdown in pre-season.
But the thing And that was the height of his career, but that story probably got like three million views or something like that, and the reason is because he essentially lied his way in.
So he was homeless for a long time, he had He was playing flag football.
He heard about a tip at the, that the Browns were having, like, this tryout.
He gets to the trip, has no money, so he's sleeping, like, at a 24-hour gym for like a week until the tryout comes.
Gets there, lies and says he knows Alonzo Highsmith, which was the Browns' maybe president or some, high-ranking guy, with the Browns at that time.
And, when he got in there, he walked straight to Alonzo and, like, tries to introduce himself.
Like, Alonzo's like, "Bro, I really don't know you, but you went through so much to get here.
Let's just see what you got."
And he got a shot, played in pre-season, scores a touchdown wearing Odell's clea- you know what I'm saying?
It's a crazy story.
And I started to realize at that point it's like I do the Hall of Famers, but there's also guys who, like, the highest they ever got was, like, a practice squad, but they story is so compelling that it still resonate with people.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's one of my favorite, one of my favorite ones
